Obama Vows Unwavering US Support for Israel

Arriving in Israel today, President Obama spent the first moments of his first visit since taking office to assure Israel of America’s slavish commitment to Israeli interests, promising “unwavering” and “eternal” support for the nation of Israel irrespective of that nation’s policies or of the situation around them.

“It is forever,” Obama said to the applause of those who visited, a chance for people to forget the somewhat surly attitude of the Israeli public toward Obama’s visit, with a strong perception on the Israeli right that Obama is insufficiently pro-Israel. This is seemingly left-over from the time in his first term when supporting a peace deal with the Palestinians was actually something to be brought up, as opposed to being ignored as it is during this visit.

Thousands rallied to protest President Obama yesterday, demanding the immediate release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. This topic has been the focus for the past week for much of Israel, with former hostage Gilad Shalit likening Pollard’s conviction by the US to his own capture by militants, and likening both to biblical Jewish enslavement by the Egyptian pharaoh in comments yesterday.

Obama’s own position on the Pollard matter is unlikely to come up during the visit, being carefully shuffled aside along with anything else even remotely controversial as he shakes hands and gives lip service to attacking Iran and/or Syria.

Author: Jason Ditz

11 thoughts on “Obama Vows Unwavering US Support for Israel”

Who els he is going to have such eternal and irrespective support for.., the people of Palestine, the American people.., these words are strange to him so is the word democracy and democratic.., therefore, he supports apartheid regimes, the Saudis dictatorial and others alike.

This could be standard overblown diplomatic speech which is basically a lie and everyone important in the room knows its just a bunch of hot air.

A nation that truly committed to be not really an ally but protector for eternity regardless of circumstance would be insane. If the US had said the same about Cuba in the 1930's, would the US feel the same after the Cuban Revolution had still protect and defend and send kids to die to protect that government? Really?

How about some unwavering support for the US? Get the Israelis to release a full list of all the stuff Pollard stole for them, which they then sold on to the Soviets. To this day, we do not still know the full extent of their treachery.